“Civic visions. Art returned” is the title of an unprecedented exhibition project which from June 18th to July 28th it will be visitable at Lamezzo archaeological museumin Lamezia Terme.
The collection that will distinguish the exhibition “Visioni civici. Art returned”, promoted by the Trame Foundation in collaboration with the MetaMorfosi cultural association, curated by Professor Lorenzo Canovaand with the Confiscated Assets Agency, Regional Directorate of Calabria Museums – Ministry of Culture, Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, with the support of the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Foundation – Cultural Ecosystems, is made up of a selection of works of art seized from organized crime.
The inauguration of the exhibition is scheduled for Tuesday 18 June on the first day of the 13th edition of Plots Festival of books on mafias – which will start that very day and last until Sunday 23rd.
The authors of the works of art in the exhibition “Visioni civici. Art returned”
“Civic visions. Art returned” will have works by twentieth century painters such as Pietro Annigoni, the so-called Painter of Queens – his famous portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom -, the landscape painter Michele Cascella, the artist of the metaphysical avant-garde Giorgio de Chirico – of which an etching on cardboard of the famous ones will be exhibited Disturbing Muses –, the expressionist painters Antonio Ligabue and Giuseppe Migneco, and then also Giovanni Cappelli, Bruno Cassinari, Ernesto Treccani.
To enrich the artistic exhibition there are also painting and sculpture works by artists of our century such as Max Marra, Cesare Berlingeri, Paolo Porelli and Paul Kostabi.
The desire to accumulate bosses
“Criminals – Trame Festival communicates in the presentation of the exhibition – had a weakness for art and were rarely able to resist the temptation to add a valuable piece to private collections. The exhibition itinerary thus includes a series of works that also tell us about the personal taste of mafiosi-collectors or their desire to accumulate art by established artists or emerging authors, unique works or print runs, ranging from painting to sculpture, up to installation or multi-material works. A journey composed of forty-four works that fits strongly into the fervent context of a festival with great civil value like Trame.”
Also present is a fake Morandi
“It is interesting to note how, in the confiscations – adds the curator Lorenzo Canova – there are not only works by important masters of Italian and international art between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but even gods fake paintings like the one on display in the exhibition, which aims to counterfeit a painting by Giorgio Morandi. A paradoxical document that makes us understand how even criminals can, in all likelihood, be victims of a scam.”
